Bersambung daripada Batu nesan Aceh (Aceh tombstones at) Bakri Batu 1.
Continued from Batu nesan Aceh (Aceh tombstones at) Bakri Batu 1.
Perjalanan diteruskan ke balai polis lama Muar. Di satu lorong bersebelahan ada suatu alat timbang lama.
Journey was continued to the old police station of Muar. At a small road besides lies an old weighing machine.
Tertera nama syarikat H. Pooley & Son dari Birmingham. Menurut arkib nasional United Kingdom ia adalah syarikat yang mengkhususkan kepada alat-alat timbangan 1897-1949.
Inscribed is the name of the company H. Pooley & Son from Birmingham. According to the United Kingdom national archive it was a company specialising in weighting machines 1897-1949.
Tercatat dalam sejarah tempatan pula Muar pernah memiliki sejenis alat timbang yang dikenali sebagai Dacing Raja. Ia digunakan untuk menimbang bijih timah sebelum dibawa keluar melalui pelabuhan berdekatan.
Written in local history in turn Muar once possesed a type of weighting machine known as Dacing Raja (the Royal Scale). It was used to weight tin ore before being brought out through the nearby port.
Sultan Abu Bakar yang bergelar Temenggung Johor (1862-1868), Maharaja Johor (1868-1886) seterusnya Sultan Johor (1886-1895) diketahui pernah pergi ke UK. Begitu juga anakandanya Sultan Ibrahim yang bertakhta 1895-1959. Melihat pada tahun wujudnya syarikat H. Pooley besar kemungkinan Sultan Ibrahim bertanggungjawab membeli alat ini. Disebabkan ia dibeli oleh seorang raja maka dipanggil Dacing Raja.
Sultan Abu Bakar who assumed the title Temenggung (something like royal home minister), Johor (1862-1868), Maharaja (emperor) of Johor (1868-1886) and then Sultan (highest ruler) of Johor (1886-1895) is known to have gone to the UK. So did his son Sultan Ibrahim who was on the throne 1895-1959. Looking at years of existence of the company H. Pooley most probably Sultan Ibrahim was responsible for buying this machine. Because it was bought by a ruler that is why it is called the Dacing Raja.
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